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Jacks or Better Video Poker Strategy

This is a full version of a Jacks or Better video poker strategy chart. Like most video poker strategy charts, it's a list of potential hands in order of return. You start at the top and go down until you find a hand that matches the hand you've been dealt, then you keep the cards indicated. Since the hands are in order of expected return, once you get to a hand, you just stop; you do not continue to go through the list of hands.

Royal flush

Straight flush

Four of a kind

Four cards to a royal flush

Full house

Flush

Three of a kind

Straight

Four cards to a straight flush

Two pair

Pair of jack or better

Three cards to a royal flush

Four cards to a flush

10-J-Q-K, unsuited

Pair of 10's or lower

9-10-J-Q, unsuited

8-9-10-J, unsuited

9-J-Q, suited

9-10-Q, suited

Four cards to a straight, open-ended

Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps & two high cards

Three cards to a straight flush with one gap & one high card

Three cards to a straight flush, open-ended, & no high cards

J-Q-K-A, unsuited

Two cards to a royal flush (two suited high cards)

Four cards to a straight with one gap & three high cards

Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps and one high card

Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps and no high card

J-Q-K, unsuited

Two unsuited high cards (throw away the ace if you have three)

Two cards to a royal flush with a 10 and no ace

One high card

Three cards to a straight flush, with two gaps and no high cards

None of the above - draw five cards

A "gap" means that there is an inside card to a straight that's needed in order to complete a straight.

"Suited" cards are of the same suit.

"High cards" are jacks or better.

Be sure to visit the section on which casinos offer full pay Jacks or Better games in Las Vegas too, and also our article about free video poker.

This page was last updated on September 18, 2007.

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